Dated Look, Not user friendly to set up
August 24, 2021

Dated Look, Not user friendly to set up

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Canvas

In my experience, this program is needlessly time consuming and clunky to navigate. I feel the interface is dated and the navigation is illogical. Considering how easy programs like Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams are to set up I am amazed this product is still being used at all. A recent district mandate is requiring that we shift to the Canvas Platform, and setting up my classes, even with the availability of a pre-made template as a starting point, has been nothing short of a nightmare. It is 3am and I have been trying to work around glitches that cause content added to one class to populate in another class casing me to have to go in and out of each class changing these overrides and saving my progress over and over again. That is after spending several hours trying to get it to stop changing ALL of my Quick Button links every time I changed one causing every link to go to the same (internal Canvas) page. School starts Monday, it is Sunday, and I am exhausted and livid. Would NOT recommend.
  • Gets school districts to purchase a license to a subpar and redundant program.
  • Causes over worked educations to become more overworked, free of charge.
  • Hoodwinks people into thinking that a platform with all the design savvy of a 2001 blog builder site is worth their time.
  • Improve interface and user friendliness
  • Streamline the set up process
  • Make it less cumbersome to copy course content into a second course, and more importantly, don’t cause changes made in said second course to duplicate I’m the first course.
  • Pay the teachers who wasted countless hours of their unpaid time working on your program and getting nowhere.
  • It was probably cheaper than some of the other options. That’s generally why they do things.
  • It has caused me to lose sleep
  • It has caused multiple colleagues to experience similar stress.
  • It has lowered productivity among teachers
I believe Canvas is worse than all of them. In my experience, it is harder to use, uglier to look at.

Do you think Canvas delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Canvas's feature set?

No

Did Canvas live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Canvas go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Canvas again?

No

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Khan Academy, Google Classroom
I feel it is never appropriate. I believe it is a waste of time. Prior to being strong armed into using Canvas, I use Microsoft Teams to manage the digital aspects of my classes, and it took less that five minutes to set up six classes. I have been trying to sort out ONE of my courses for 9 hours and it is now 3:20 am, with the first day of school closing in fast. I have yet to get a single class ready for publication with Canvas.

Canvas Feature Ratings

Course authoring
1
Course catalog or library
1
Player/Portal
1
Learning content
1
Mobile friendly
1
Progress tracking & certifications
1
Assignments
1
Compliance management
Not Rated
Learning administration
1
Learning reporting & analytics
1
Social learning
1